"The perceptible invisibility of the bomb from everyday life is a constructed illusion, maintained by the epistemic apparatuses, which have emanated from the bomb itself"

"Deterrence theory is based upon the concept which can be defined as the use of threats by one party to convince another party to refrain from initiating some course of action."

Nuclear is experienced in an alternate timeline: it cannot be discussed without its history of violence and secrecy from the 1940s-1990s, and also it cannot be discussed without its potentiality of future destruction.